My sister and I were sitting in the upper deck in rightfield. That homer went directly over our heads. That was an AMAZING game to see. So many great future HOFers!
@@jstrahan2 Cecil fielder & Dave Kingman super great homeruns hitter not in baseball hall of fame: doc Ellis was just a regular 1970s pitcher: baseball hall of fame it very very tough to get in
I met Reggie Jackson once when I was a batting practice pitcher for a major league team. I saw him standing in our clubhouse (this was after he'd retired). I just HAD to walk up to him to introduce myself, to meet him. He was a massive guy, not towering tall, but thick and strong. He could not have been nicer to me. Smiled, shook hands, just incredibly gracious. Really made an impact on me.
I had a great experience with Reggie in 1976. His one season with Baltimore after Charley Finley was breaking the A's dynasty up. It was during warm ups and there were very few fans in the park. I walked down to the right field railing at Fenway Park and he came right over to me and signed my autograph book. He was friendly, warm and very nice to me. I have never forgotten the experience. A total class act.
Three degrees of Separation of Reggie Jackson : I was also young in Newport Beach Ca and was a huge Dodgers / Angels fan and got see Reggie hit 3 jacks live on home dugout right outside gate to field and after Reggie came in from a rare right field performance than late in 86-87 Season when the RedSox beat Angels in ADLS in extra innings , anyways Reggie flips me his middle finger 🖕🏽 and thought I was the guy heckling him after 3 jacks .. dude almost got knocked out from about 50 fans , 70s- 80s sporting events and even the 90s were lit fun! F today’s virtue signaling sellouts in all sports . My favorite all time pro teams After my LA Kings won their 2nd Cup in 14’ I quit watching hockey . 🏆 🏆 ✅ Lakers won NBA Rona ship , didn’t watch a game ✅ Dodgers win first WS since 88’ , worthless Rona win , what about the 7 straight division titles and how many choke jobs or rigged outcomes ( astros ) QUIT watching baseball in 2012 ✅ 49ers - RIGGED NFL by the numbers . Bet $$ 🆚 investing emotional energy into sports team , it’s all bs and Rona rigged for your bread n circus 🎪 , keep the masses entertained while we destroy the world .. God bless us all , sorry , this stuff really burns me up , but F it , I saw major legends play in their prime and end game. Life was great , invest in your family and supplies and get ready for a crazy year
I was a Red Sox fan but I always admired Reggie. I was a 14 year old and watched him hit that home run on tv that night. To this day I don't know if I 've ever seen a harder hit ball.
They sell it out every year. We have 24/7 tv internet. Not each moment can be the greatest. My dad explained why awhile back and it all comes down to being able to see one game a week etc for a variety of reasons. Tori hunter robbing bonds was epic etc. why does new hate old and old hate new I’ll never know. Don’t care to, would just be to two partial sides giving partial arguments.
@@JasonSmith-cz8yj you are in denial friend. People don't care about the all star game like we used to. They just don't. Hell the homerun derby is a bigger event than the actual game. You know that. You're just in denial.
Those guys were legendary! I used to come in from playing to watch the Game of the Week every Saturday. Now they couldn't pay me to watch these primadonnas.
I grew up hearing Curt Gowdy call a game at the big A against the Dodgers. I recall an umpire tackling Reggie from behind. A pile on ensued. Not sure the game was ever completed.
I still instinctively think about watching Saturday baseball in the afternoon but I’m always disappointed because it’s not Gowdy and Kubek… All these years later
@@pmccservices Agreed, 'specially since cutting the cable and reduced to 'free' TV with a digital over-the-air antenna. It's back to the 60's, with ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX. Good thing PGA is still carried on these :). Would love to time my Saturdays once again to catching a national game of the week.
No one watches this today because you can't see the ball ... whats the point. He could have hit the ball to the moon and it didn't matter since you can't see it.
@@Cutterman62 According to Harry Coyle who produced the telecast for NBC the handle on the camera struck a railing preventing the cameraman from tracking the flight of the ball.
Al Kaline said at the time that it was the hardest hit ball he'd ever seen in his life. Just for the record, Jackson did hit one out of Tiger Stadium a few years later.
I was 12 years old watching this game. The MLB All-Star game (for me) was magical. I lived in an American league city. So seeing Willie Mays, Aaron, Bonds, Stargell, Rose, Bench, Clemente, etc. I just loved it.
I remember watching it on TV. I was 13. Never saw a ball hit that far. I saw Harmon Killebrew put a ball out of the stadium at the old Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, but this one was farther.
I was ten at the time. Such a shame that the All Star game, aka the mid season classic, is essentially meaningless these days. Players didn’t change between leagues as much then as they do now.
I learned how to hit the golf ball long as a kid by watching Reggie Jackson hit home runs in Oakland where I grew up. The sound of the ball coming off his Bat was something I've never heard before and I knew even as a kid that that was power. To this day I still swing like Reggie Jackson on the golf ball.
That A's team was something else Reggie, Sal Bando, Catfish, Joe Rudi, Gene Tenace and others and the great Dick Williams managing. The Swingin' A's!!!!
@@dalethelander3781 are you speaking of Vida Blue if so you need to look at his career stats. By no means a one year wonder. Three time 20 game winner two time 18 game winner and the only pitcher in history to be the winning pitcher in an allstar game for both leagues.
I grew up across the River from Detroit in Windsor, Ontario and my dad took me to many games at the old Tiger Stadium. And I would bet that among the 30 or so games we went to, 29 of them somewhere, someone mentioned, talked about or asked about that home run lol. My dad must have told me that story 50 times...and when a player named Rupert Jones hit a long foul ball up onto that roof, sure enough he mentioned it again lol. Great times, great memories and a great old stadium with it's own personality and atmosphere.
I grew up watching MLB in late '60 and '70s. When it was the #1 sport for a reason. Games were usually 2 hrs or less, because starting pitchers completed their games, win or lose. Not like today, where a manager makes 2-4 pitching changes every half inning.
Reggie hit one like that in Metropolitan stadium in Mn a few days before this game that hit the top right corner of the huge scoreboard in right center field that was said to have gone around 550'. Frank Howard was on first base during this all-star game and said Reggies hit would have gone over 600' if it didn't hit the transformer at the base of light tower! Great call by the legendary announcer Curt Gowdy!
I grew up in the bay area going to A's games and there were certain guys we would show up early to watch them take BP. Reggie, Frank Howard, and Norm Cash were 3. They would put on a show.
We had friends who were life-long season ticket-holders. They said the ball was still rising when it hit the light tower. I saw Cecil Cooper hit the light tower to the right of that one. Monumental blasts. Miss Tiger Stadium so much. Went to hundreds of games there.
I remember a famous quote Reggie Jackson made when the New York sports media asked him about coming to the Yankees. Jackson said, “I didn’t come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me”.
Also " I'm the straw that stirs the drink." Disparaging Thurman Munson who hated Reggie's guts. Greatest Billy Martin quote about Reggie and Steinbrenner....." One's a born liar, the other convicted."
@@kevinmcdonald6477 - Reggie never said a thing about being "a straw that stirs the drink." That nonsense line came from the brain of one of the Ofay New York sports beat writers who at the time were jealous of outsider Reggie's top contract and Reggie being brought to NY to lead a team of Yankees who hadn't won anything before he arrived. The clan of NY reporters excelled at fabrications and misquotes in order to stir up controversy with fans and with cantankerous alcoholic manager Billy Martin and nut-job owner Steinbrenner. Jackson, to his credit, took on all the unnecessary sportswriters negativity and thru the pressure of it all, shut the bozos up by doing exactly what he was hired to do in 1977: lead the longtime winless Yankees to a World Series win. He then repeated the feat in 1978. Thankfully, top players today don't have to endure what Jackson had to when he came to NY in 1977. Today, the sportswriters are more diverse in both ethnicity and gender, and don't carry petty jealousies rooted in yesteryear. Also, raging alcoholic managers get fired or don't even get the job, while ownership behavior like Steinbrenner in the 1970's and 80's is now recognized as unprofessional and counterproductive. What Reggie Jackson did with the NY Yankees was a triumph both on the field and off.
One of the best scenes from The Bronx is burning is when Fran Healy is giving Reggie batting tips in the locker room and is asked how many career dingers he had ( some inconsequential amount ) and after hearing Fran's response replies with his method " See ball hit ball " ! Reggie would make 50 mill a year in today's game .
So many people only have his time with the Yankees as a reference point, but he was an Athletic for years and firmly established as an elite power hitter. He's still my favorite player of all time.
Tiger Stadium was a joy to watch a ballgame in. 1985 bunch of guys from work went to see the tigers play the Angels. Reggie's birthday happened about a week earlier. We were in the upper deck on the first base line. Reggie was doing wind sprints in the outfield. I yelled out, "Happy Birthday Reggie!" When he got back to the first base line, he turned and looked up and tipped his helmet. A ballplayer would never hear you from pretty much anywhere in that turd called Comerica Park. Tiger Stadium was a treasure, destroyed for greed.
@@Salvatore1268 had 2 tickets won on a lucky raffle gave one to my neighbor cause i had no way to go 6 years later he took me to daytona 500 the best was the game seeing aaron and mays talking in the outfield daytona was noisy couldnt see anything loud and dirty.
As stated earlier, six homeruns in that game were all hit by Hall of Famers. Jackson, Clemente, Bench, Killebrew, Frank Robinson and Aaron. There were a total of 12 future Hall of Famers who participated in this game.
A total of 26* future Hall of Famers were present for this game: 21 players, both managers, National League coach Walt Alston, Hall of Fame umpire Doug Harvey, and future Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre...and if Pete Rose ever gets in make it 27
Reggie Jackson, Dick Allen, Mickey Mantle, and Norm Cash were built the same way. None of them were over 6'0" tall, but they were solidly built with thick wrists, forearms, and torso.
The corner....the smell of Stroh's and Ball Park Franks...listening to Ernie and Ray Lane/Paul Carey on the small transistor...banging them green seats for a rally...The memories...
This homerun by Reggie Jackson along with Kirk Gibson's shot in game 5 of the 1984 World Series have to be the 2 most memorable homeruns ever hit in Tiger Stadium (at least in my opinion)!
You guys shoulda seen some of the shots Norman Cash hit out of the park, over that same roof. When Cash was on, and he got all of the ball, he could hit tape measure shots like anybody......Except Frank Howard, who once hit 2 of them of of Tiger Stadium....In the same game!!!!!
@@milojanis4901 HONDO !! We loved Frank Howard's homers here in the Washington DC area. He always had power, but his hitting improved markedly when Ted Williams became manager in 1969.
This game was played on my 7th birthday, I remember it well, I love to watch the footage of this at bat over and over just to see that ball jump off of Reggie's bat! Unbelievable!!
agreed, saw this when I was 14. The ball hit about 12 feet up the transformer obviously above the roof. At the time I think only Killebrew had hit one out.
@@lloydkline6946 yeah, talk about all time blasts. That was the game if I'm not mistaken, where Oakland's Canseco blasted one over that 440' "No man's land" center field in Tiger stadium, earlier in the game. Then Fielder came up and out did him.
Love those old A's uniforms. Reggie was one of my heroes growing up. I was a big Dock Ellis fan, as well. He had a cup of coffee with the Yankees for a few years,
I grew up a Pirate fan and was fortunate enough to see and remember the '79 World Series; I was 11. I also have seen a good documentary on Ellis, but you have to appreciate Mr. October and the way he would stand there at the plate after absolutely crushing a ball.
Look how slim Jackson was those days and look how much power he hit the ball with. He didn’t need to take roíds to put on muscles even in the tongue like Barry B did.
I remember watching that blast whrn i was barely nine-yrs old in then tiny Isle of Palms, SC...on our Zenith 20" console TV. I loved the A's back then with green and gold unis, with vests and white shoes.
Living in the Detroit area all my life, I remember watching this game on television. The hitters were on that night. On the rare occasions when some one did hit one out over the right or left field roof in Tiger stadium. The ball simply went up and never came down, or back on the field. Hitting that transformer was quite the achievement, also. Hitting it was as difficult as hitting a home run over the roof. Jackson just killed that pitch.
I visited Tiger Stadium in 1998... it's final year. I looked up at the transformer Reggie hit. I think you folks should lay off the cameraman. First, the camera may not have moved that high. Second, the ball went out at warp speed. The camera may have been too heavy to move that fast. Years later, Cecil Fielder cleared the LF roof. The cameraman didn't track that one either.
TheBatugan77 I agree. In those days the Norelco PC70 color Camera was the most popular camera used on national TV sports broadcasts . It was the best of that time but it was heavy and nothing like todays high def equipment.
True. Reggie stood more upright, take the bat off his shoulder widen his stance just a bit. The early Jackson could turn any fastball around, but the later Jackson would wait on that slow breaking ball that many struck him out with, but not when the money was on the table. Imagine Reggie playing his whole career as a Tiger. He most definitely would have obliterated the Home Run record.
@@spryfolII or if he had played in the "fastball league", the National League, he wouldn't have had to make those "adjustments" he could have just sat on fastball after fastball. Imo, depending on the home park, there's a chance he hits more than 700 home runs if he had played in the NL. Also, Oakland was not a homerun hitter's paradise, just the opposite in fact. The ball did not carry in that stadium, Oakland had a micro climate of very tepid temperatures and often a lot of fog. The stadium design and climate caused a lot of warning track "outs". I grew up in Oakland, so I am very familiar with the ballpark.
@@orbyfan oh yeah, that is a pitcher's park, all the way, Sal Bando had a field day making pop-up outs up and down the dug-out area, of course that's what made our pitching so devastating, we had a lovely line-up (but only one true HOFer), but a pitching staff of great arms, catfish hunter, vida blue, rollie fingers, lindblad, holtzman, odom, and others. I take nothing away from Joe Rudi, or campy both of whom were super clutch - it was a great team - yet it was the pitching staff and reggie which set them apart.
I loved the A's old uniforms. I was 7 in 1971, and we had just moved out of Houston to a city without a major league team. No more going to the Astrodome once a week, just the Game of the Week on NBC. I love this clip. I so rarely got to see West Coast teams, and it was great to see Reggie in this game. Thanks for the memories.
The lineups of this all star game were ridiculous! Hall of famers all over the place! All of the scoring came via the home run, six of them, and all six home runs hit in the game were by future Hall of Fame players - Aaron, Bench, Clemente, Killebrew, Frank Robinson, and Reggie Jackson. And let this sink in - among non starters for the NL were Bobby Bonds, Lou Brock, Roberto Clemente, and Pete Rose. Same for the AL. On the bench were Norm Cash, Al Kaline, Bobby Murcer, Reggie Jackson, and Harmon Killebrew. The starting OF for the NL was Aaron, Mays, and Stargell. WTF?!?
My buddy and his dad... not me. But my Dad and I were at home watching our color TV that was 1 year old . I was 11. The names on that field that day !!!
In the second inning of this game, Johnny Bench hit a HR that he claims was the longest of his career. It went into the upper deck in right center and through an aisle. Nobody remembers because of the massive shot by Reggie Jackson.
Other forgotten home runs that day: Henry Aaron & Roberto Clemente for the National League. And Harmon Killebrew & Frank Robinson of the American League. Six(!) home runs that game!
Reggie was perfect for his time. It was before cable television, and viewers had limited choices, so we watched this guy evolve into a superstar with soaring confidence and swagger. He became part of the public consciousness. Add iconic and controversial sportscasters like Howard Cosell into the mix, and you have perfect entertainment. Reggie and Howard made sports moments memorable and larger than life at times.
I was 17 that year. I really enjoyed the All Star games of my youth. I never missed one until this one. Our family was in Belgium visiting relatives. I read about the home run but didn't see it live. Just an amazing rocket.
Miss the play-by-play of Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek. I would always look forward to the start of baseball season when they would announce the weekly Saturday afternoon game on NBC's MLB game of the week. The broadcast would always go to a different park every week. If a team was on a winning streak/a particular player was hitting well/or the game was of importance in a pennant race they would cover it
Growing up, I would often lay in bed on summer nights with my transistor radio, listening to ball games. I'm in Pittsburgh, so I got to listen to Bob Prince all the time...but then there was Jack Buck and Harry Caray in St. Louis, Richie Ashburn, Harry Kalas and Byrum Saam in Philadelphia, Lindsey Nelson and Ralph Kiner with the Mets, Phil Rizzuto for the Yankees, Milo Hamilton in Atlanta. They were all great....those were the days.
I was in Florida in the early 70s and a huge Pirates fan. When they were on the west coast, I could pick up KDKA clear as a bell at like1 in the morning. One night Prince asked fans to let him know who was listening to the game at that late hour. My bet is that lots of us were. I was thrilled when the Pirates were picked for the Game of the Week because that was my only chance to see them. It sucked if the game got rained out!
The late ‘60s / early ‘70s Oakland A’s had THE coolest-looking home uniforms in baseball history - sleeveless white tops with green undershirts, white bottoms with the thin green and yellow stripe down the sides, green stirrups with yellow “sanitaries,” and white cleats - thank you, Charlie Finley!
Was coming home on I-75 outside the stadium with a friend and his Dad driving from a youth league game in Detroit listening to this on the radio when it happened.... told myself I would never forget this moment!!
When Reggie got traded to Baltimore and held out all of April. I went down to get his autograph as a 15 yr old fan on his way to his car he told me to F off.
Mantle hit one off the very top of the right field frieze at Yankee Stadium. Maybe a foot or two higher, it would've cleared the roof. Same trajectory as Reggie's here.
I watched it on TV in '71. Like everyone I didn't see the ball hit the light tower. Years later I visited Tiger Stadium and actually SAW where the ball hit. Hole-eee-crap!
I was never a good ball player. But in one game with friends, I hit the ball perfectly. It barely felt like I hit the ball, but it just jumped off my bat. I think that's what happened to Reggie on that one.
As Curt Gowdy mentioned, he also walked 8 batters and hit one as well. His ball was flying all over the place and was so unpredictable, no wonder the Padre hitters had trouble!
@schef61 I've taken acid once. Along with a 50 mg vyvanse, 12 pack of beer and a line of blow at a halloween party in college. I remember seeing little red riding hood in a parking lot. The parking lot lights and street lights looked like they were beaming through a kaleidoscope. My vision was distorted to look like a sine wave when music was blaring. Definitely not doing it again.
I was 15 with my Dad in the upper deck in left field when Reggie hit this moon shot... It was awesome and still on its way up as it hit the light tower
Most overrated baseball movie. Redford didn't look like a baseball player swinging the bat at all. I am always amazed when anyone claims The Natural the best baseball or for that matter sports movie. Plus Redford claimed he played in college which turned out to be a blatant lie.
Reggie's bat toss was one of a kind. I was never a fan of that; I thought it was showing up the pitcher. But if I had hit a ball like that, I'd have tossed my mother. What a shot!
That may have been the first ever home run pose? I can't think of one earlier than that. But I don't think he was showing up the pitcher or being narcissistic. I truly believe he surprised himself with how hard he hit it.
Reggie did say it surprised him that he hit it that hard. It was his first all star game and he said Sal Bando, his Oakland teammate told him don't embarrass us. I was 16 watching this game and it shocked everybody. He didn't flip the bat.
I went to that game as a ten year old with my Father. He had ducked down to get a hot dog and beer just before Reggie's blast. I teased him about his poor timing for years. What a great game!
Yeah. Mantle hit a few bombs in the old Yankee Stadium. It was like 500 feet to dead centerfield. Guys hit a lot of sacrifice flies to what players back then called "Death Valley."
Speaking of Tony Kubek he mentioned that when Mantle batted right-handed he probably hit 20-25 balls to left center, in the old Yankee Stadium, that went 400'+ and were just long outs each season.
Yup, Tiger Stadium was my favorite park in The AL, although I never attended a game there. I miss all of the old parks that were still around in the 70's. Commisky is another. I guess Fenway and Wrigley are the only remaining ones.
@@RS-tz2zn Yes, they were, but both are not even close to the old stadiums. I attended well over 100 games at Tiger Stadium (in 1983, I was a Junior Usher, and worked all the home games). That ballpark was a gem. It only went to seed, when ownership wanted a new stadium, with suites and other crap. Tiger Stadium was a victim of greed.
Hit the transformer. Interesting that Reggie's As, started their dominance by winning the AL West that year. Also of interest, the catcher in Reggie's HR at bat is Johnny Bench, who also hit a HR in the same game, where Clemente hit 1 in almost the exact spot that Bench did like an inning later.
My sister and I were sitting in the upper deck in rightfield. That homer went directly over our heads. That was an AMAZING game to see. So many great future HOFers!
As a reward for making the honor roll, my dad and granddad took me to this game. Sat in the Upper Deck bleachers
@MarkMoore-my7cp legendary baseball ⚾️ game& homerun by Reggie Jackson off the roof at tiger 🐅 stadium
But Doc Ellis didn't make the Hall.
@@jstrahan2 Cecil fielder & Dave Kingman super great homeruns hitter not in baseball hall of fame: doc Ellis was just a regular 1970s pitcher: baseball hall of fame it very very tough to get in
@@MarkMoore-my7cp. WOW , that WAS a great gift !!!
Who else smiled when they mentioned Dock's no-hitter?
@jeff roy acid
Who couldn't?
Supposedly 33 players in that game are in the Hall
Doc was on acid during the no hitter. He said the catchers mit seemed very large lol
He didnt know he was starting that game...so he took the acid! Then became a spot starter!
I met Reggie Jackson once when I was a batting practice pitcher for a major league team. I saw him standing in our clubhouse (this was after he'd retired). I just HAD to walk up to him to introduce myself, to meet him. He was a massive guy, not towering tall, but thick and strong. He could not have been nicer to me. Smiled, shook hands, just incredibly gracious. Really made an impact on me.
I had a great experience with Reggie in 1976. His one season with Baltimore after Charley Finley was breaking the A's dynasty up. It was during warm ups and there were very few fans in the park. I walked down to the right field railing at Fenway Park and he came right over to me and signed my autograph book. He was friendly, warm and very nice to me. I have never forgotten the experience. A total class act.
Three degrees of Separation of Reggie Jackson :
I was also young in Newport Beach Ca and was a huge Dodgers / Angels fan and got see Reggie hit 3 jacks live on home dugout right outside gate to field and after Reggie came in from a rare right field performance than late in 86-87 Season when the RedSox beat Angels in ADLS in extra innings , anyways Reggie flips me his middle finger 🖕🏽 and thought I was the guy heckling him after 3 jacks .. dude almost got knocked out from about 50 fans , 70s- 80s sporting events and even the 90s were lit fun!
F today’s virtue signaling sellouts in all sports .
My favorite all time pro teams
After my LA Kings won their 2nd Cup in 14’ I quit watching hockey . 🏆 🏆 ✅
Lakers won NBA Rona ship , didn’t watch a game ✅
Dodgers win first WS since 88’ , worthless Rona win , what about the 7 straight division titles and how many choke jobs or rigged outcomes ( astros ) QUIT watching baseball in
2012 ✅
49ers - RIGGED NFL by the numbers . Bet $$ 🆚 investing emotional energy into sports team , it’s all bs and Rona rigged for your bread n circus 🎪 , keep the masses entertained while we destroy the world .. God bless us all ,
sorry , this stuff really burns me up , but F it ,
I saw major legends play in their prime and end game. Life was great , invest in your family and supplies and get ready for a crazy year
I was a Red Sox fan but I always admired Reggie. I was a 14 year old and watched him hit that home run on tv that night. To this day I don't know if I 've ever seen a harder hit ball.
Reggie always said that he greatly appreciates his fans. GREAT guy.
@@greglapointe1311 how far did the ball go
In those days the all star game was an event fans were actually interested in
I believe that every HR was hit by a future HOFer. I do remember Aaron, Frank Robinson and Reggie. I think there were others.
@@TheBatugan77 6 HR were hit in this AS game. Bench, Aaron and Clemente for the NL. Jackson, Killebrew and F. Robinson for the AL.
Love it maybe the best baseball game of the year it used to be, not no more today
They sell it out every year.
We have 24/7 tv internet. Not each moment can be the greatest. My dad explained why awhile back and it all comes down to being able to see one game a week etc for a variety of reasons.
Tori hunter robbing bonds was epic etc. why does new hate old and old hate new I’ll never know. Don’t care to, would just be to two partial sides giving partial arguments.
@@JasonSmith-cz8yj you are in denial friend. People don't care about the all star game like we used to. They just don't. Hell the homerun derby is a bigger event than the actual game. You know that. You're just in denial.
mammoth shot! also quite a shot of nostalgia hearing curt gowdy and tony kubek again.
Those guys were legendary! I used to come in from playing to watch the Game of the Week every Saturday. Now they couldn't pay me to watch these primadonnas.
AGREED! Gowdy and Kubek were top-notch.
I grew up hearing Curt Gowdy call a game at the big A against the Dodgers. I recall an umpire tackling Reggie from behind. A pile on ensued. Not sure the game was ever completed.
I still instinctively think about watching Saturday baseball in the afternoon but I’m always disappointed because it’s not Gowdy and Kubek… All these years later
@@pmccservices Agreed, 'specially since cutting the cable and reduced to 'free' TV with a digital over-the-air antenna. It's back to the 60's, with ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX. Good thing PGA is still carried on these :). Would love to time my Saturdays once again to catching a national game of the week.
I can watch these kinds of games all day the commentary is perfect the feel of the game is perfect THIS all the way till mid 2000s was baseball
The ads plastered everywhere nowdays have really gotten out of hand. It's despicable. The ballparks looked very nice back then.
the crack sound of the bat said it all
This crack of the bat is one of the best ever!
I raised the volume for this one...
The crack of the bat could always be heard at Tiger Stadium
And those were shitty microphones then.
Reggie got really good wood.
The greatest camera miss in MLB home run history.
No one watches this today because you can't see the ball ... whats the point. He could have hit the ball to the moon and it didn't matter since you can't see it.
Cameraman probably never saw one go there before. And it got there quick too.
@@paulmooney8671 Probably because it couldn't be angled up high enough to see it.
@@Cutterman62 According to Harry Coyle who produced the telecast for NBC the handle on the camera struck a railing preventing the cameraman from tracking the flight of the ball.
the same happened with Cecil Fielder's home run over the left field roof at Tiger Stadium in 1990. Camera stops in about the same spot in elevation.
That ball was CRUSHED!!!! REGGIE killed that pitch. WOW! LOL!
Al Kaline said at the time that it was the hardest hit ball he'd ever seen in his life. Just for the record, Jackson did hit one out of Tiger Stadium a few years later.
He started th AL comeback
Baseball, Curt Gowdy....love those great years and my Idol Henry Aaron
RIP Hank
All of baseball world will miss you
Billy from Atl
I was 12 years old watching this game. The MLB All-Star game (for me) was magical. I lived in an American league city. So seeing Willie Mays, Aaron, Bonds, Stargell, Rose, Bench, Clemente, etc. I just loved it.
Even sounds like Modern day Casting for "Field of Dreams!"👍⚾️B.W.
Interleague is so far past its expiration date. When the leagues met in the all-star game and the World Series, it was special and significant.
He crushed it and knew it. Reggie was a beast and could hit bombs. Really cool to see the old games. Great video
I was there. I was 6 years old. That ball was still going up when it hit the light tower. Still the hardest ball I've ever seen hit.
I was there too. I was 10 years old. 50 years ago!
I remember watching it on TV. I was 13. Never saw a ball hit that far. I saw Harmon Killebrew put a ball out of the stadium at the old Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, but this one was farther.
I wasn’t there… I saw it on TV! Wow!
My dad was there too. His eyes would light up when he would mention how hard he hit it!
I was ten at the time. Such a shame that the All Star game, aka the mid season classic, is essentially meaningless these days. Players didn’t change between leagues as much then as they do now.
I learned how to hit the golf ball long as a kid by watching Reggie Jackson hit home runs in Oakland where I grew up. The sound of the ball coming off his Bat was something I've never heard before and I knew even as a kid that that was power. To this day I still swing like Reggie Jackson on the golf ball.
This game was played on my 7th birthday, I love to watch the footage of this at bat just to see that ball jump off of Reggie's bat! Unbelievable!!
Wonderful sharing of great performance by the great Reggie Jackson. God bless everyone from Patrick
I remember watching that live. I was a huge A’s fan back then. My favorite player was Sal Bando.
Yep, those were the days. The Giants weren't much in the 1970s so everybody in northern California went crazy for the A's...
Watched it live myself... A Detroit fan and what a game.
Sal Bando...there's a name ain't heard in a bit....👍
That A's team was something else Reggie, Sal Bando, Catfish, Joe Rudi, Gene Tenace and others and the great Dick Williams managing. The Swingin' A's!!!!
So did I. It was very inspirational and made me want to hit a baseball just as far.
All time all time favorite all star game. Big H.O.F. Line- ups.
Vida got the win
Mine as Well, 71 and 41 were the best, both in Detroit.
@@bobke114 He ended up a one-season wonder. Didn't find his mojo again until he was a reliever with the Giants.
@@dalethelander3781 are you speaking of Vida Blue if so you need to look at his career stats. By no means a one year wonder. Three time 20 game winner two time 18 game winner and the only pitcher in history to be the winning pitcher in an allstar game for both leagues.
I saw it- great players, lots of HRs.
Watching this famous home run makes me miss baseball more than I ever thought.
I watched that game on tv and I'll never forget the sound of that ball being hit. As Kubek said, it was still going up when it hit the transformer.
Me too!!!!!
An absolutely perfect power swing.
What an era. Even the all Star game had historic highlights.
I was at this game. Beautiful summer night at Tiger Stadium, line-up of all time greats featuring six home runs.
I was there too! Got seats in a lottery and drove in from Grand Rapids. My bday was the day before. One of the highlights of my life.
Dad worked for the city (park Development)..got tickets...My friends HATED ME for weeks when I went
did you hear the crack of the crack of the bat at your vantage point?
I grew up across the River from Detroit in Windsor, Ontario and my dad took me to many games at the old Tiger Stadium. And I would bet that among the 30 or so games we went to, 29 of them somewhere, someone mentioned, talked about or asked about that home run lol. My dad must have told me that story 50 times...and when a player named Rupert Jones hit a long foul ball up onto that roof, sure enough he mentioned it again lol. Great times, great memories and a great old stadium with it's own personality and atmosphere.
I always loved it, when Reggie knew a ball was gone. This is one of his best!
I grew up watching MLB in late '60 and '70s. When it was the #1 sport for a reason. Games were usually 2 hrs or less, because starting pitchers completed their games, win or lose. Not like today, where a manager makes 2-4 pitching changes every half inning.
Or the starting pitcher goes 5 innings. Pathetic. Todays gsme is not baseball.
The average back then was 2 hours 15 minutes.
Jim Palmer pitched 10 shutouts in the 1975 season. Now it would be rare for a whole pitching staff to have 10 complete games in a season.
Reggie hit one like that in Metropolitan stadium in Mn a few days before this game that hit the top right corner of the huge scoreboard in right center field that was said to have gone around 550'. Frank Howard was on first base during this all-star game and said Reggies hit would have gone over 600' if it didn't hit the transformer at the base of light tower! Great call by the legendary announcer Curt Gowdy!
I grew up in the bay area going to A's games and there were certain guys we would show up early to watch them take BP. Reggie, Frank Howard, and Norm Cash were 3. They would put on a show.
2 years before that was the NBC Game of the Week
13 years later, I was in the bleachers in Tiger Stadium when Reggie came up, and this time he cleared the roof. Awesome sight.
We had friends who were life-long season ticket-holders. They said the ball was still rising when it hit the light tower. I saw Cecil Cooper hit the light tower to the right of that one. Monumental blasts. Miss Tiger Stadium so much. Went to hundreds of games there.
I remember a famous quote Reggie Jackson made when the New York sports media asked him about coming to the Yankees. Jackson said, “I didn’t come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me”.
Also " I'm the straw that stirs the drink." Disparaging Thurman Munson who hated Reggie's guts. Greatest Billy Martin quote about Reggie and Steinbrenner....." One's a born liar, the other convicted."
@@kevinmcdonald6477 - Reggie never said a thing about being "a straw that stirs the drink." That nonsense line came from the brain of one of the Ofay New York sports beat writers who at the time were jealous of outsider Reggie's top contract and Reggie being brought to NY to lead a team of Yankees who hadn't won anything before he arrived. The clan of NY reporters excelled at fabrications and misquotes in order to stir up controversy with fans and with cantankerous alcoholic manager Billy Martin and nut-job owner Steinbrenner. Jackson, to his credit, took on all the unnecessary sportswriters negativity and thru the pressure of it all, shut the bozos up by doing exactly what he was hired to do in 1977: lead the longtime winless Yankees to a World Series win. He then repeated the feat in 1978. Thankfully, top players today don't have to endure what Jackson had to when he came to NY in 1977. Today, the sportswriters are more diverse in both ethnicity and gender, and don't carry petty jealousies rooted in yesteryear. Also, raging alcoholic managers get fired or don't even get the job, while ownership behavior like Steinbrenner in the 1970's and 80's is now recognized as unprofessional and counterproductive. What Reggie Jackson did with the NY Yankees was a triumph both on the field and off.
One of the best scenes from The Bronx is burning is when Fran Healy is giving Reggie batting tips in the locker room and is asked how many career dingers he had ( some inconsequential amount ) and after hearing Fran's response replies with his method " See ball hit ball " ! Reggie would make 50 mill a year in today's game .
So many people only have his time with the Yankees as a reference point, but he was an Athletic for years and firmly established as an elite power hitter. He's still my favorite player of all time.
Tiger Stadium was a joy to watch a ballgame in. 1985 bunch of guys from work went to see the tigers play the Angels. Reggie's birthday happened about a week earlier. We were in the upper deck on the first base line. Reggie was doing wind sprints in the outfield. I yelled out, "Happy Birthday Reggie!" When he got back to the first base line, he turned and looked up and tipped his helmet. A ballplayer would never hear you from pretty much anywhere in that turd called Comerica Park. Tiger Stadium was a treasure, destroyed for greed.
I was there sitting in lower deck in right centerfield still have mint score book also have all mint cards from 68 tigers team.
Nice
Agreed Nice!....
mike frasard u were at this game? Wow what that like
@@Salvatore1268 had 2 tickets won on a lucky raffle gave one to my neighbor cause i had no way to go 6 years later he took me to daytona 500 the best was the game seeing aaron and mays talking in the outfield daytona was noisy couldnt see anything loud and dirty.
mike frasard wow that’s awesome
I was watching this as a 10 year old kid in Jasper Arkansas. 2 channels on the TV .Vida Blue and Reggie were heroes in sport to me
Vida Blue! Wow! A sure-fire Hall of Famer if the personal stuff didn't derail him.
I remember that game & that moment.. what a blast: and that All Star game had the most future Hall of Famers on the rosters in ASG history
Now that's the greatest single call of a home run ever broadcasted...
As stated earlier, six homeruns in that game were all hit by Hall of Famers. Jackson, Clemente, Bench, Killebrew, Frank Robinson and Aaron. There were a total of 12 future Hall of Famers who participated in this game.
A total of 26* future Hall of Famers were present for this game: 21 players, both managers, National League coach Walt Alston, Hall of Fame umpire Doug Harvey, and future Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre...and if Pete Rose ever gets in make it 27
The American League won this ALL STAR GAME the first time in quite a long time.........
Always love his swing and after
Reggie had the flare for the dramatics, more than any player in the game...ever
Good point although David Ortiz is comparable.
Ever really hey I loved the guys style but ever! Gee there's a few others I could mention but I'm sure you also know
Reggie said one regret was not being able to watch himself play.
I miss the swingin A’s of the early 70’s. What a group. Listening to Monte Moore on TV and radio and games against the Seattle Pilots in ‘69
Still the best looking swing I have ever seen at 0:42.
Reggie Jackson, Dick Allen, Mickey Mantle, and Norm Cash were built the same way. None of them were over 6'0" tall, but they were solidly built with thick wrists, forearms, and torso.
My buddy Dominic was at this phenomenal game with his Dad !!! Thank God WE grew up with Tiger Stadium !
Tiger stadium was a true sports cathedral.
The corner....the smell of Stroh's and Ball Park Franks...listening to Ernie and Ray Lane/Paul Carey on the small transistor...banging them green seats for a rally...The memories...
This homerun by Reggie Jackson along with Kirk Gibson's shot in game 5 of the 1984 World Series have to be the 2 most memorable homeruns ever hit in Tiger Stadium (at least in my opinion)!
I would also add the one or two homeruns that Cecil Fielder had hit over its roof.
You guys shoulda seen some of the shots Norman Cash hit out of the park, over that same roof. When Cash was on, and he got all of the ball, he could hit tape measure shots like anybody......Except Frank Howard, who once hit 2 of them of of Tiger Stadium....In the same game!!!!!
@@milojanis4901 HONDO !! We loved Frank Howard's homers here in the Washington DC area. He always had power, but his hitting improved markedly when Ted Williams became manager in 1969.
Holy Hell!! That thing was an absolute BOMB!!
This game was played on my 7th birthday, I remember it well, I love to watch the footage of this at bat over and over just to see that ball jump off of Reggie's bat! Unbelievable!!
Nice to have this game happen on your birthday. The National League had so much depth that Roberto Clemente and Pete Rose weren't even starters!
Dock Ellis pitched that no-hitter in 1970 while tripping on LSD. Reggie Jackson has always been one of my favorite players.
Never heard such a distinct sound of a bat hitting a ball - truly, absolutely, once-in-a-lifetime perfect contact!
The ball weny higher than the camera could tilt!
My all time favorite homerun
agreed, saw this when I was 14. The ball hit about 12 feet up the transformer obviously above the roof. At the time I think only Killebrew had hit one out.
It looked like it as still gong up when it hit that transformer on the roof!
Have you seen cecil.fielder left field roofer in early 1990s
@@lloydkline6946 yeah, talk about all time blasts. That was the game if I'm not mistaken, where Oakland's Canseco blasted one over that 440' "No man's land" center field in Tiger stadium, earlier in the game. Then Fielder came up and out did him.
Kirk Gibson in 88 but this ones up there,way up there!
Love those old A's uniforms. Reggie was one of my heroes growing up. I was a big Dock Ellis fan, as well. He had a cup of coffee with the Yankees for a few years,
I grew up a Pirate fan and was fortunate enough to see and remember the '79 World Series; I was 11. I also have seen a good documentary on Ellis, but you have to appreciate Mr. October and the way he would stand there at the plate after absolutely crushing a ball.
If it wasn't for the light tower in Tiger Stadium that ball would still be going
Look how slim Jackson was those days and look how much power he hit the ball with. He didn’t need to take roíds to put on muscles even in the tongue like Barry B did.
Amazing classic ballgame and very cool showing this at bat By Reggie. Also great to hear Curt Gowdy! God bless all from Patrick
I remember watching that blast whrn i was barely nine-yrs old in then tiny Isle of Palms, SC...on our Zenith 20" console TV. I loved the A's back then with green and gold unis, with vests and white shoes.
Living in the Detroit area all my life, I remember watching this game on television. The hitters were on that night. On the rare occasions when some one did hit one out over the right or left field roof in Tiger stadium. The ball simply went up and never came down, or back on the field. Hitting that transformer was quite the achievement, also. Hitting it was as difficult as hitting a home run over the roof. Jackson just killed that pitch.
I visited Tiger Stadium in 1998... it's final year. I looked up at the transformer Reggie hit. I think you folks should lay off the cameraman. First, the camera may not have moved that high. Second, the ball went out at warp speed. The camera may have been too heavy to move that fast.
Years later, Cecil Fielder cleared the LF roof. The cameraman didn't track that one either.
TheBatugan77 I agree. In those days the Norelco PC70 color Camera was the most popular camera used on national TV sports broadcasts . It was the best of that time but it was heavy and nothing like todays high def equipment.
Excellent point
Actually, Fielders shot didn’t clear the roof - it landed on the roof. No one has ever cleared the roof on the fly.
1999 was Tiger Stadium's last season.
@@syourke3 i heard that Frank Howard of the Senators cleared the roof...but u wood no more about that than me...because my information is hear say..
This game had so many stars and future HOF'ers and what a great place to play.....good old Tiger Stadium
Back when ballplayers were household names.
Tony kubek and curt gowdy were on point with timely information. True sports commentary.
A young Reggie Jackson before he became Mr. October six years later in 1977.
Reggie's batting stance sure is different here than what it was later in his career.
He said he was so worried about striking out that he choked up on the bat.
True. Reggie stood more upright, take the bat off his shoulder widen his stance just a bit. The early Jackson could turn any fastball around, but the later Jackson would wait on that slow breaking ball that many struck him out with, but not when the money was on the table. Imagine Reggie playing his whole career as a Tiger. He most definitely would have obliterated the Home Run record.
@@spryfolII or if he had played in the "fastball league", the National League, he wouldn't have had to make those "adjustments" he could have just sat on fastball after fastball. Imo, depending on the home park, there's a chance he hits more than 700 home runs if he had played in the NL. Also, Oakland was not a homerun hitter's paradise, just the opposite in fact. The ball did not carry in that stadium, Oakland had a micro climate of very tepid temperatures and often a lot of fog. The stadium design and climate caused a lot of warning track "outs". I grew up in Oakland, so I am very familiar with the ballpark.
@@slewofdamascus There was also a lot of foul territory; a lot of what would have been foul balls into the stands elsewhere were outs in Oakland.
@@orbyfan oh yeah, that is a pitcher's park, all the way, Sal Bando had a field day making pop-up outs up and down the dug-out area, of course that's what made our pitching so devastating, we had a lovely line-up (but only one true HOFer), but a pitching staff of great arms, catfish hunter, vida blue, rollie fingers, lindblad, holtzman, odom, and others. I take nothing away from Joe Rudi, or campy both of whom were super clutch - it was a great team - yet it was the pitching staff and reggie which set them apart.
I loved the A's old uniforms. I was 7 in 1971, and we had just moved out of Houston to a city without a major league team. No more going to the Astrodome once a week, just the Game of the Week on NBC.
I love this clip. I so rarely got to see West Coast teams, and it was great to see Reggie in this game. Thanks for the memories.
The A's moved to Oakland in 1968, they had a team in 1971
The lineups of this all star game were ridiculous! Hall of famers all over the place! All of the scoring came via the home run, six of them, and all six home runs hit in the game were by future Hall of Fame players - Aaron, Bench, Clemente, Killebrew, Frank Robinson, and Reggie Jackson. And let this sink in - among non starters for the NL were Bobby Bonds, Lou Brock, Roberto Clemente, and Pete Rose. Same for the AL. On the bench were Norm Cash, Al Kaline, Bobby Murcer, Reggie Jackson, and Harmon Killebrew. The starting OF for the NL was Aaron, Mays, and Stargell. WTF?!?
And Al Kaline, who passed away today, also hit a homer in this game.
Only time in 50 years of watching games when I heard the play-by-play guy mention an electrical "transformer."
The sound of the bat hitting the ball
Nobody used their entire body to hit a pitch like Reggie.
Lighttower shot!
Detroit News Headlines the next day was " Reggie's Light Tower shot stuns NL"
A classic. I was at this game.
Still awesome.
I was there. I was 10 years old. Me, my dad, and my uncle. 50 years ago! Wow.
My buddy and his dad... not me. But my Dad and I were at home watching our color TV that was 1 year old . I was 11.
The names on that field that day !!!
In the second inning of this game, Johnny Bench hit a HR that he claims was the longest of his career. It went into the upper deck in right center and through an aisle. Nobody remembers because of the massive shot by Reggie Jackson.
The lineups for both leagues probably contained the greatest collection of hall of famers ever to play in any all star game.
Other forgotten home runs that day: Henry Aaron & Roberto Clemente for the National League. And Harmon Killebrew & Frank Robinson of the American League. Six(!) home runs that game!
Clemente and Bench both hit 450 foot plus homers to right center. Greatest All Star Game bar none to,Me.
Here's a CZcams link showing that home run. Looks like it landed in the crowd, not down an aisle. czcams.com/video/7JeFGEgkO_I/video.html
@@josephmcfarland8442 i totally agree
Reggie dropped that bat immediately because it had lightning still pulsing through it.
Reggie was perfect for his time. It was before cable television, and viewers had limited choices, so we watched this guy evolve into a superstar with soaring confidence and swagger. He became part of the public consciousness. Add iconic and controversial sportscasters like Howard Cosell into the mix, and you have perfect entertainment. Reggie and Howard made sports moments memorable and larger than life at times.
I well remember watching this on TV. The image of that transformer (which kept it from going out of the stadium) is forever etched in my mind. 👍
When I was a kid I wanted to be like Reggie Jackson, he had the best uniform the best batting stance he was the man!
yep, had to love those unis.
I was at Tiger Stadium in May of '84 when Reggie was with the Angels and cleared the right field roof.
I was at that game also,it went out in about 1 second
i remember that game,i was 11 years old my first year in Little League and cub scouts,nice days
I was 17 that year. I really enjoyed the All Star games of my youth. I never missed one until this one. Our family was in Belgium visiting relatives. I read about the home run but didn't see it live. Just an amazing rocket.
Miss the play-by-play of Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek. I would always look forward to the start of baseball season when they would announce the weekly Saturday afternoon game on NBC's MLB game of the week. The broadcast would always go to a different park every week. If a team was on a winning streak/a particular player was hitting well/or the game was of importance in a pennant race they would cover it
Yep !! The voices of the world series for me ... EVERY YEAR .
Born in 60.
Growing up, I would often lay in bed on summer nights with my transistor radio, listening to ball games. I'm in Pittsburgh, so I got to listen to Bob Prince all the time...but then there was Jack Buck and Harry Caray in St. Louis, Richie Ashburn, Harry Kalas and Byrum Saam in Philadelphia, Lindsey Nelson and Ralph Kiner with the Mets, Phil Rizzuto for the Yankees, Milo Hamilton in Atlanta. They were all great....those were the days.
I was in Florida in the early 70s and a huge Pirates fan. When they were on the west coast, I could pick up KDKA clear as a bell at like1 in the morning. One night Prince asked fans to let him know who was listening to the game at that late hour. My bet is that lots of us were. I was thrilled when the Pirates were picked for the Game of the Week because that was my only chance to see them. It sucked if the game got rained out!
Love him or hate him Reggie was at the right place at the right time many times with a bat.
The late ‘60s / early ‘70s Oakland A’s had THE coolest-looking home uniforms in baseball history - sleeveless white tops with green undershirts, white bottoms with the thin green and yellow stripe down the sides, green stirrups with yellow “sanitaries,” and white cleats - thank you, Charlie Finley!
Was coming home on I-75 outside the stadium with a friend and his Dad driving from a youth league game in Detroit listening to this on the radio when it happened.... told myself I would never forget this moment!!
Wow! That must've been a helluva car ride!
KSmall109CAB .....cemented in my mind forever!
When Reggie got traded to Baltimore and held out all of April. I went down to get his autograph as a 15 yr old fan on his way to his car he told me to F off.
Reggie was an asshole as a player too, still want him in my 70's lineup.
Reggie didn't hold out in April of 76. Doc Ellis and hit him fastball in his jaw and broke it for a month of the season. Check it out and Google it.
Longest homerun on record is 565 ft by Mickey Mantle. It was estimated that Reggie's HR would have gone over 600 ft had it not hit the light tower.
When it hit the light tower it was still on the way up!!...ur exactly right
Mantle hit one off the very top of the right field frieze at Yankee Stadium. Maybe a foot or two higher, it would've cleared the roof. Same trajectory as Reggie's here.
Imagine with that power he hit it back to the PITCHER instead!! 😞 😞 😞. That’s scary
I was 12 watching this game. That ball got out as fast as I’ve ever seen. An absolute gun shot.
I watched it on TV in '71. Like everyone I didn't see the ball hit the light tower. Years later I visited Tiger Stadium and actually SAW where the ball hit.
Hole-eee-crap!
It looked like he barely put any weight into. Lol what a shot
I was never a good ball player. But in one game with friends, I hit the ball perfectly. It barely felt like I hit the ball, but it just jumped off my bat. I think that's what happened to Reggie on that one.
Ellis supposedly pitched his no-hitter against San Diego while he was tripping on acid.
True. He got his pitching schedule mixed up and thought he had an off day. He was off for eight to twelve hours, any way.
As Curt Gowdy mentioned, he also walked 8 batters and hit one as well. His ball was flying all over the place and was so unpredictable, no wonder the Padre hitters had trouble!
totally true. he said the ball would tell him which pitch to throw.
spanish rampage Jerkoff
@schef61 I've taken acid once. Along with a 50 mg vyvanse, 12 pack of beer and a line of blow at a halloween party in college. I remember seeing little red riding hood in a parking lot. The parking lot lights and street lights looked like they were beaming through a kaleidoscope. My vision was distorted to look like a sine wave when music was blaring. Definitely not doing it again.
I remember watching this on tv as a kid. Monster HR.
So was I. That was a humungous shot.
I was 15 with my Dad in the upper deck in left field when Reggie hit this moon shot... It was awesome and still on its way up as it hit the light tower
That was a cinematic “Roy Hobbs” kind of shot!
Most overrated baseball movie. Redford didn't look like a baseball player swinging the bat at all. I am always amazed when anyone claims The Natural the best baseball or for that matter sports movie. Plus Redford claimed he played in college which turned out to be a blatant lie.
Reggie's bat toss was one of a kind. I was never a fan of that; I thought it was showing up the pitcher. But if I had hit a ball like that, I'd have tossed my mother. What a shot!
That may have been the first ever home run pose? I can't think of one earlier than that. But I don't think he was showing up the pitcher or being narcissistic. I truly believe he surprised himself with how hard he hit it.
Reggie did say it surprised him that he hit it that hard. It was his first all star game and he said Sal Bando, his Oakland teammate told him don't embarrass us. I was 16 watching this game and it shocked everybody. He didn't flip the bat.
Curt Gowdy play by play and Tony Kubek analyst, great announcers!
I went to that game as a ten year old with my Father. He had ducked down to get a hot dog and beer just before Reggie's blast. I teased him about his poor timing for years. What a great game!
Mantle hits three out as a visiting player. Now that's impressive.😁
Yeah. Mantle hit a few bombs in the old Yankee Stadium. It was like 500 feet to dead centerfield. Guys hit a lot of sacrifice flies to what players back then called "Death Valley."
Speaking of Tony Kubek he mentioned that when Mantle batted right-handed he probably hit 20-25 balls to left center, in the old Yankee Stadium, that went 400'+ and were just long outs each season.
Find a Mantle highlight then asshole
Wow; Mickie mantle
What a shame that the All Star Game was never brought back to Tiger Stadium! I miss that park!
Yup, Tiger Stadium was my favorite park in The AL, although I never attended a game there. I miss all of the old parks that were still around in the 70's. Commisky is another. I guess Fenway and Wrigley are the only remaining ones.
Don’t forget about dodger stadium and Anaheim stadium! I think they were built in the 1960s
@@RS-tz2zn Yes, they were, but both are not even close to the old stadiums. I attended well over 100 games at Tiger Stadium (in 1983, I was a Junior Usher, and worked all the home games). That ballpark was a gem. It only went to seed, when ownership wanted a new stadium, with suites and other crap. Tiger Stadium was a victim of greed.
Im a reds fan born in 68. I always thought tigers stadium was better then
Wrigley or fenway. Why did they tear it down?
Clarence Boddicker's favorite team. " Tiger's are playing TONIGHT, Sal! Never mss a game!".
What an iconic.....BLAST....
that should count as 2 HRs!!!!
Got to watch Reggie hit many a homer in Oakland even when he played for the Angel's and Yankees. Many memories of such good days at the ballpark.
Ironic how Reggie & Dock were briefly team mates 6 years later in NY.
Hit the transformer. Interesting that Reggie's As, started their dominance by winning the AL West that year. Also of interest, the catcher in Reggie's HR at bat is Johnny Bench, who also hit a HR in the same game, where Clemente hit 1 in almost the exact spot that Bench did like an inning later.
Giants of Baseball!
And Johnny didn’t stink
There were six homers in that All-Star Game. The others were by Henry Aaron, Harmon Killebrew, and Frank Robinson. Every homer hit by a Hall-of-Famer!
Reggie was one of my heroes back in the 70's
Reggie Jackson once said you do not have to give me a star i brought it with me
Those A's uniforms were the bomb; they still are, one of the best uniforms in baseball.
The next year the A's got unis even better the gold 🪙 green 💚 and white tops which they wore on Sundays
100 percent agree.